Personally I think that more than 2/3 of the artist's unique style comes from music/sounds selection (the main point), his story and message and only the rest comes from his technical skills (except innovators like mister Richie Hawtin). It doesn't matter whether it is live act with >10 hard synths or CD DJ set if it sounds like a shit and the crowd doesn't appreciate it.
So the question is about music/sounds selection. How do you find out music that makes your style unique? It's rather boring to sit on beatport/juno or whatever for hours everyday and listening all new tracks. For me it's like going to perfume shop - first half an hour (1-2 hours, doesn't matter) you really discern odors, but then you can't really distinguish whether it is something cool or shit. Also quite difficult to be unique just using sources like beatport or listening popular mixes/podcasts/radio shows (because everyone has easy access to them). Just checking only your favorite labels you can miss something really interesting and rare. So what to do? Find out rare vinyl? Unreleased tracks (most of us don't even know how and where to get it)? I think almost everyone doesn't want to be a "beatport top100 tracks DJ".
What do you think? Share your experience!
P.S. Have nothing against beatport, just gave an example.
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